The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Year | 2007 |
Starring | Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow |
Director(s) | Julian Schnabel |
Rating | PG-13 |
Genre(s) | Biography, Drama |
Runtime | 112 min |
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind. At the same time he struggles to come to grips with the unfulfilling and wandering life he has lived.